Auxiliary fare indicator and protector for street-car registers.



.No. 758,846. PATENTED MAY 3, 1904.

F. PADUVEHI.

AUXILIARY FARE INDICATOR AND PRoTRcToR FOR STREET GAR REGISTERS. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, 1903.

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- UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FELIX PADUVFJRI, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

AUXILIARY FARE INDICATOR AND PROTECTOR FOR STREET-CAR REGISTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,846, dated May 3, 1904.

Application filed February 24, 1903. Serial No. 144,575. (No model.)

To a, whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, FELIX PADUVERI, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Auxiliary Fare Indicators and Protectorsfor Street- Car Registers; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a devicefor use on street-cars and the like as an adjunct to the ordinary cash-fare andtransfer registers and adapted to be operated simultaneously with the latter to give an audible signal at that part of the car where the register-signals are not generally heard.

The object of the invention is to prevent the continuous and material loss to the companies by dishonest conductors failing to ring always the correct number of fares.

Under the general system in vogue of mechanically registering and announcing cash fares and transfers the register is located within and at one'end of the car and is operated by pull-cords or rock-shafts running the length of the car on each side of the register and connected with their respective indicating and signaling mechanisms. On small or open cars the register-signal is generally audible at all parts ofthe car, and the conductor has no chance to ring less than the correct number of fares for fear of being detected; but on long closed cars, and particularly those having a dummy or motormans platform with outside seats at each end, the opportunities for dishonest practice present themselves. Among these opportunities are the intervention of a closed door between the conductor and the register and the noise of street traffic or the clanging of bells on two cars passing each other or the racket of the car going over a crossing. It is notorious that many conductors watch for such an opportunity to collect from passengers upon the outside seats where one person pays the fare for several, and while he may apparently pull the cord the correct number of times the register inside will indicate a less number, but owing to the confusion of noises the register-bell will not be heard by the one paying fare.

My invention consists in the parts and the construction. and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in'which Figure 1 is a plan view of the indicator or protector. Fig. 2 is an end view of same, omitting casing. Fig. 3 is an end view of a car with my invention attached. Fig. 4 is a car in elevation, showing relative positions of register and protector.

A represents any ordinary register located within and at one end of the car above the door and operatable from the rock-shafts or pull-cords in the well-known manner.

B represents my device located at the opposite end of the car and on the platform side of and above the door and adapted to be operated from the pull-cords or rock-shafts simultaneously with the register within and to give forth a signal distinctive of either a cash fare or a transfer and capable of being heard above the din by every one on the platform.

The device B comprises a suitable casing inclosing the signal mechanism, which is here shown as constructed and operated as follows: Two bells 2 3 are mounted within the casing one above the other on the same stud, the one, as 2, adapted to give forth a sharp clear ring to indicate cash fares and the other muffled by a rubber facing 4: on a standard 5 and indicating transfers. A plate. 6 is slidable radially of and beneath the bell 2 and has a longitudinal cam-slot 7, in which a pin on an arm of a bell-crank lever operates. The other arm of lever 8 is provided. with a suitable metal knob 9, forming a hammer for the cashfare bell. The end of slot 7 remote from the center of the bell is offset in the direction of the fulcrum of lever 8, so that the effect of moving .plate 6 toward the center of the bell is to throw the hammer outward to give the desired ring. The movement of plate 6 is directed and its position maintained by virtue of the headed pins standing in the slot 10 of the plate. The latter is normally retracted outward by means of a spring 11. The outer end of plate 6 is made with two inclined camfaces, which normally seat in the crotch of a each side of the car.

Y-shaped lever 12, which latter is fulcrunied at 13 and has its lower end connecting,by means of the cords 14, out through the casing with the cash-fare pull-cords 15 or rock-shafts on An oscillation of lever 12 in either direction causes a reciprocation of plate 6 and a ringing of bell 2.

The transfer-bell 3 is operated by means of one or the other of links 16, which have one end pivoted to an arm on a rock-shaft, as 17, at either side of and extending the length of the car and by which shafts the transfers are rung up and recorded in the regular manner in the register inside the car. The adjacent ends of links 16 connect with a bell-crank lever 18, fulcrumed just above indicator B and adapted to have an arm actuate pin 19, which is slidable in a guide-sleeve 20 in the case of the indicator. The inner end of pin 19 engages a lever 21 within the case, which in turn actuates a pivoted member 22, carrying the hammer 23.

An actuation of either of rods 17 by the conductor operates the register within the car in the usual manner and at the same time causes bell 3 to ring on the platform. Similarly a pull on cords 15 operates the cash-fareregistering mechanism within the car and simultaneously gives an audible signal outside that cannot go unheeded and will serve as a protection against the now frequent petty embez- Zlements.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

1. In a device of the character described the combination with a register at one end of the car; register-actuating means extending along the sides of the car with means connecting one end of each of said actuating means with the register; a casing located at the opposite end of the car on the platform side; a pair of bells of different tone, located on said casing; and means connecting the other end of each of the said register-actuating means with one of the pair of bells whereby the character of the fare registered is audibly indicated upon one or the other of the pair of bells in the casing at a point outside the car in accordance with which one of the register-actuating devices is operated.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a suitable register of a protector therefor comprising a casing secured to the exterior of the car, said casing containing bells corresponding to the different indicating mechanisms of the register, separate striking mechanism for each of said bells, one of said mechanisms including a sliding plate and a three-armed lever, the mechanism for the other bell including a reciprocating part extending outside the casing, a bell-crank lever engaging said reciprocating part, rock-shafts or equivalent operating means, and respective connections between said three-armed lever and bell-crank lever and said operating means.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FELIX PADUVERI.

Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, CHAS. E. TOWNSEND. 

